A Life in Music Ep. 74 - Hey Rick Beato, Don Henley Can Pound Sand! 

Rick Beato and JP Cormier, two of my favorites.

Hey JP! I’ve raised 4 kids and payed off a mortgage in my life in Canadian music! That’s success in Canada! I’m still playing, and now building guitars, at 65! I love Ricks channel - but he IS an “industry” guy! Peace

I agree on a lot of things being said here. Something that really cracks me up is when guys come up to me at shows and they reveal that they have written some really good songs but they won’t release them because of piracy on the internet or some crap… I’ve had Nashville acquaintances who railed about how internet piracy was costing them a career in the industry and I just laughed back then… Today I find that people “stealing” music is not what is holding artists back so much as them not having the balls to go out and unapologetically making something amazing. As for The Eagles? Those guys can eat a bag of… Well Henley can anyway! I think what I’m far more upset about here in the states has been BMI and ASCAP who are supposed to be looking out for the artist have been flying goons first class around the country to go shake down tiny coffee houses that hold 20 people in them over their open mic night allowing covers… Beating up tiny little venues who already barely make money because they don’t even sell beer has done more damage to young up and coming artists just trying to get a little stage time than most people would ever know, far more than piracy ever did.

Thanks JP for your 40 years of insight and k..nowledge! It sounds like your not up to speed on streaming music quality and how to achieve great sound on a 2 channel system. With a good quality streamer and dac into a great amp and speakers it's actually magical! Come on up to Ingonish Beach to our B&B in the next couple days for the fall colours and have a listen! The Island Inn, we got a cottage for ya and a kinda old yamaha guitar for you to play in the dining room!!!!! We'll even get you and Ginger up the new gondola at Cape Smokie ski hill. Cheers!

Wish I could hit the like button 100 times...! You've said what I've been thinking for a long while, now. Oh, and yes, I've been watching Beato for a couple years or more; I may not like much of the same music as he does, but his depth of musical knowledge runs deep. And yeah, like you, he's cool.... 🙃

Oh wow, you are a music soulmate..lol. Dedicated to live music all my life. I am a female product of the 60s and 70s folk era. I am a singer songwriter/ guitarist who love Emmylou, Joan Baez, and others. I have enjoyed my music and have no regrets. I have had many bands and love fellow musicians. I now play alone always looking for others who always have done it for the comraderie and the song. Great video. Love your work. God Bless

Hello J. P. Steve here in England, also remember the artwork, sleeve notes and recording details which you get with cds albums etc. It's HISTORY, cheers until the next episode. Steve.

Very interesting JP that’s the best Rant on RU-vid , that Eagle needs to get on Board🎸power to Rick Beato😂🎸🎸

Thanks for this J.P. I found this fascinating, and learned something. Who could ask for more? 🍁

I still buy cds all the time including JP’s newest CD signed 😁👍

Hey JP, great show today. I watch Rick too. His “What Makes this Song Great” is an amazing analysis that the lay ear would otherwise never hear. I believe Henley and the classic rock/ pop guys are old school copyright law. I think Jimmy Page is the same. Please don’t end this show!

I'm a big fan of Rick and JP

That on thumb down was from Don Henley..

Idea for new series title. “Oh, yea. I Almost Forgot”

Great info JP

My favorite Dolly Parton quote: (Paraphrasing): When I recorded “I Will Always Love You,” I went down to the bank and opened my first checking account. When Whitney recorded “I Will Always Love You,” I went down and bought the bank.

Hammer on JP..Love it😁

Thank you. Very Informative.

Great info as usual. Honest and true.Thank once again J.P.

Thank you my friend for posting! ... always look forward to your views & insight on these things! ..."We keep doing what we do" ... Be safe and hopefully have a Greater 2022!

Amazing series J.P. Thank you!! Its not over I'm sure. I watched a post you did about the secret to playing guitar. That video needs to be required viewing by every music teacher to every student regardless of the instrument!! Well done!!

I'm looking forward to the Life in Music shows going forward, my sister and I are interested in the music business, being teens we are at the very very beginning. We have modelled our youtube channel and facebook page based on your video on how to setup your social media video you did last year. Looking forward to learning from your advice. - James Nelson

John you’re just pure awesome man! So inspired honestly great stuff!

absolutely nailed it JP, an essential video that every working musician should watch, thankyou for your balls out straight out honesty

I was wondering why the “I confronted the people who blocked me” video has popped back up in my recommended list months (maybe a year) after I saw it. The algorithm is strong with you, JP. LOL. Another great video! Cheers!

Watched your entire rant, JP. Thanks. As for Rick Beato, I'm a casual fan - mostly love his communication skills with the theory. But one thing people don't know about him is that he was a struggling jazz guitarist for a very long time. He had to make the (probably heartbreaking) decision give up persuing his craft professionally because he just wasn't making it. So after what I gather was at least a decade immersed in Jazz, in complete isolation from any pop music, he decided to start producing pop albums. And here's where you and I and everyone on youtube gained from all his schooling/training/struggle. He had heard zero pop/rock/soul etc while on his forray into Jazz. When he came back to produce, he turned that incredible wealth of knowledge and understanding (esp. of theory) onto the rock albums he knew from the past and on the pop music of the day. Instead of maintaining a sort of superiority complex about jazz, he found that rock and pop, though less complex, was not less important nor less noteworthy. That's the excitement you see when he talks about what makes a song great. He really fell in love with music at that point. I'm sure he thought he loved it before. But loving a woman at 20 is much different than loving her in your middle age. Thanks again for your rant. I hope more people will hear it and learn from it. You're right on the money about the greed of artists or their representatives in either demonetizating or removing videos. Myopia Supreme. You called it. They are choking out their own legacy. A great example is Jimi Hendrix. His estate has so poorly mismanaged his catalog on top of aggressivity getting videos pulled down, that they've effectively erased Jimi from the future. Legacy buried. Literally not a human being alive under 30 years old even knows who the man is. Imagine that. And all because those in charge of his catalog are so behind in the times that they mistook free advertising for intellectual property theft - and somehow manage to retain employment despite their obvious lack of understanding of what's probably the most important and powerful tools one has for self promotion. In history.

well done JP

*THIS COMMENT IS WAY TOO LONG. BUT IT’S AS SHORT AS I COULD MAKE IT. NO ONE IS UNDER ANY PRESSURE TO READ IT!* Beato is a former industry guy and hates the industry as it stands. His quandary, or better, his mission, seems to be trying to find ways to make it possible to accomplish the two things that the former “record industry” was actually good at. (1) make new music artists readily discoverable through promotion and (2) make possible the ability to make being a musician a *real* job. Here’s the problem. Artists still must be able to focus on writing good music and growing as artists. But nowadays, artists have to split their time wearing too many hats. They still have to write, perform, tour, and rehearse so they don’t get rusty - just like they used to. Plus, now they also have to go through the mystical process of recording, possess the personality to self-promote, and negotiate the myriad paths of distribution - by themselves. The time spent figuring out Pro Tools and putting together some approximation of a studio (and that’s a lot of damn time… and money) is time not spent on honing their skills as musicians, songwriters, and performers. The recording and business aspects are things that artists, generally speaking, suck at and shouldn’t have to deal with. This is a fact. I watch Mr. Beato’s RU-vid channel regularly; I greatly enjoy it. But right now he’s got this ongoing series on trying to figure out why pop music these day is so bad. What *I* can’t figure out is what the big mystery is. To my mind, there’s no big mystery at all! It’s obvious! Comparing the music of today to the music of the 1960’s, ‘70s, ‘80s, or even the 90s, is ridiculous - a “fool’s errand”. Pointing to the likes of Paul McCartney - with or without the bands he used to be in _(correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure one of them was called “The Beatles”?)_ as being some kind of standard is just silly. As great as The Beatles’ canon is, whenever any one of the four has been asked to explain their success, each of them has the answer; Brian Epstein. Yes, of course they knew how great they were. They were keenly aware of that. But when they gave that answer they were serious as hell. They weren’t being dodgy about it. To this day, McCartney still says that he knows they were the best band out there, but without Epstein’s ability to get them in front of the right people, the music alone wasn’t going to be enough. He is very open about their own ineptitude where promotion and the business end of the thing was concerned.

Wow, Mr. Cormier---- a really excellent talk. This will be of great educational interest to a lot of people. You sure educated me. I hope Rick Beato watches this and gives you recognition. It's all about MONEY and GREED!

Thanks for the wisdom John …Hope the Henleys of this World see it too .It’s actions that show the real person.

Hey JP, I've seen those Rick Beato videos and he says that Henley has a team of over 60 PEOPLE that monitor the internet daily for "copyright infringement"! How obscene is it that he can afford to pay that many people to take down videos that can actually make MORE money for him and extend and perpetuate the life of the songs! I love the Eagles but this is a "less than desirable" move that tarnishes his legacy.

Hey J.P. great video. Don Henley has always been an arrogant snob. Never cared for him. I do appreciate your knowledge and the time you've taken to make these videos. Keep up the great work.

We need more people watching life in music. Everyone share this video.

I subcribed. I am still only a student of guitar. You are inspirational for me. Yes, egos above the music can pound sand!

Interesting program today JP. You touched a little on what makes the world tick and brings success to entrepreneurs. That is the customer. The customer, not the artist or the inventor makes for financial success. I have a dislike for most entertainers as they think customers were created by them not the other way around. Give the customer a good product and the maker will do well. However, the customer has to have the means to spend and if the economy is doing well, the customer will spend excess resources on entertainment. If most customers are poor or the economy is depressed, inventors and entertainers will go hungry. What peeves me off is the entertainers who were made wealthy by customers, spends a lot of their spare time trying to put customers out of work! Now I listen to Rick and Joe Chambers who give us great insight into the life of entertainers and being retired i have the time to be entertained about entertainers. Some really talented people musically. It’s important, I think, that entertainers recognize that they are a part of what makes the world go round, not the reason the world goes round. I enjoy your work, you are very talented and seem happy to have found a grove that works well for you.

“Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him easy prey for death.” Don Henley is a fool.

11:49 It's funny that Rick Beato did a "What Makes This Song Great" on Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" but didn't mention the lawsuit... I have been bugging him in the comments to do a comparison. Another one lately is Joe Satriani vs Coldplay (settled out of court). This video is gold! I'm also a big Rick Beato fan (and just took a brief Udemy course on songwriting)

Hey JP, even though the sound quality of Spotify is not up to snuff is there any chance of seeing #ALifeInMusic uploaded as a podcast. I think it would explode like steel strings on a classical!

The i dustry is adrift. People don't know how to make living doing it. Your voice really helps. LAWYERS!!!!! Zeppy is terrible about it too!

Wish we closer, would live to jam with you for a while.

Im glad the record companies no longer have control of the music industry ,many bands have been ripped off from them .I have been watching Rick for 3 years or so now I do like him and he makes his money by selling his book and music training ,can you imagine if you tube was around 30 years ago? man that could have changed alot of writers and artists that couldnt get a contract from record companies

I've been watching and following Rick for a long time now... even before I found your channel, which is also great. Rick says in a recent video that Mike Dawes is one of the finest acoustic guitarists around (he can't think of anyone better). You said in one video (if I remember correctly), "It's not about who is the best guitarist around... Tommy Emmanuel is, so let's get that out of the way." Those two comments pretty much illustrates the difference between your opinion and Rick's. I have to admit I haven't heard of Mike Dawes and I've seen Tommy many times in the past. Both are great at what they do. I, personally, really, really like David Russell myself, but that's another story. Tommy told me once that the classical guitarists like John Williams and David Russel are the "true" masters of the guitar. Goes to show that all you, great guitarists in your own right, are modest and gracious enough to recognize the talent all around. BTW - your flat picking is outrageous!

Don Henley should be invited to a Bluegrass Festival. Maybe he would get it then :P

Don Henley is worth $250 million dollars, hardly a gazillionaire but he's not hurting either....

Don Henly needs to finance the USA with some of his money that he's earned during the past 50 years.

I hit the skip button when Don Henley comes on my Spotify feed since I saw Rick Beato's video..

I thought it would be oke to post this Rick Beato video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PLIZZ9lIlwg.html I wonder if Rick saw this video and thought: "I'll show him" 😉

6:00 There is a new, long interview with Tommy Emmanuel on RU-vid by a guy "Cody Jung". Viewers may want to check it out. (I have no affiliation with the interviewer or channel: I just thought it would be of interest to everyone).

This makes me wonder if Ellington Jordan, Billy Foster and Etta James get paid for "I'd rather go blind" every time someone plays Tennessee Whiskey.

Don Henley has a net worth of $250 million 2021

I personally was completely over the eagles when they blatantly gouged their fans with the ticket prices for the hell freezes over tour. Great band great songs, but any artist that has their head so far up their own arse, they act like you need them than they need you.

How rich does Don Henley need to be??? REALLY!

Radio play makes a hit , good or bad , just look at Red Solo Cup😁 worst noise ever

Sweet Jesus what are you talking about, "there's never going to be another" the future of new fresh music is endless. I am nearly seventy and I hear new artist who I think are absolutely amazing, and I have probably listened years, not endless hours of music. This is certainly one point I disagree with you strongly. Cheers, I do enjoy content that gives me serious disagreement.